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From: uselton@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel P. Uselton)
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Subject: Re: Forkover U. and building own hardware
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Date: 17 Jul 90 18:01:48 GMT
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Re: Greg Bullough: amusing bad old days, with :-)

In about 1975, in a new, just being created graduate program, (in a
Math Sciences Dept., so you KNOW we were software folks), we really did
go to a machine shop (my grandfather's) and machine parts to make frames
that supported our custom designed (one chip per) PC boards and carried
power and ground to them.  We did use off the shelf chips, but we mounted
them ourselves.  That lab was still in use when I got my PhD several
years later.  REALLY.

Sam Uselton
Stolen from a .sig:  Beware of a programmer with a screwdriver.
My darkest secret: I once made a VAX backplane mod - and it worked!!